An airplane crash in the Philippines left one U.S. military service member and three defense contractors dead on Thursday. In a Thursday press release, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command announced, “On February 6, 2025, an aircraft contracted by the U.S. Department of Defense crashed in the Philippine Province of Maguindanao del Sur.” Indo-Pacific Command noted that the…
The software company Workday will chop more than 600 jobs in the East Bay — roughly one-third of its worldwide layoff plans — a wrenching cutback spurred by a push to scout for AI opportunities. The company has disclosed plans to eliminate 1,750 jobs worldwide even as it hires workers who can help Workday mine potential goldmines…
Democrat members of the U.S. House of Representatives held a protest outside the Department of Education on Friday amid reports that President Donald Trump’s administration is planning to shut down the department. The Democrat lawmakers attempted to force their way into the building; however, they were blocked by a security guard. According to NBC News,…
The U.S. Coast Guard and other rescue crews are currently searching for a Cessna airplane that vanished in Alaska on Thursday with 10 people on board. As of Friday morning, officials had not located the missing plane. Fox News reported that the missing aircraft is a Cessna 208B Grand Caravan EX operated by Bering Air….
They only had one shot to save the fish. Ash from the Palisades fire had blown into a stream housing the last population of steelhead trout in the Santa Monica Mountains, degrading the water quality. The first rain following the inferno was closing in, bringing threats of debris flows that could choke Topanga Creek. Mud was already clogging the…
President Donald Trump took dead aim at California’s high-speed rail project Tuesday, promising to lead an investigation into the beleaguered project under construction in Fresno and the central San Joaquin Valley. “The train that’s being built between Los Angeles and San Francisco is the worst managed project I think I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen some of the worst,” Trump told reporters Tuesday. He…
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) announced on Thursday that Pearson Mayor Robert “Buster” Johnson was arrested and charged with fraud, bribery, theft, violation of his oath of office, and multiple other crimes. In a Thursday press release, the GBI confirmed that the 49-year-old Pearson mayor had been arrested and charged with four counts of…
Idaho moved another step closer Thursday to becoming the only U.S. state with a firing squad as its lead method for carrying out the death penalty. Along a nearly party-line vote, the Republican-controlled Idaho House overwhelmingly passed House Bill 37, by a 58-11 tally. Two GOP members joined the House’s nine Democrats in opposition following limited debate. The bill now moves to the Senate for consideration. Rep. Bruce Skaug, R-Nampa,…
President Donald Trump’s offer for federal employees to resign from their posts has already been accepted by more than 50,000 workers, according to a person familiar with the effort. Now the administration is signaling a tougher posture in its bid to shrink the government’s workforce, asking federal agencies to draw up lists of their poorest…
An illegal immigrant who operated a now “dismantled” fentanyl mill in Lawrence “faces deportation,” the Drug Enforcement Administration has announced. DEA New England posted on social media Thursday that agents had taken down what they described as a fentanyl mill in Lawrence that contained “12 kilos of powdered fentanyl, 5-thousand fake fentanyl pills (and) 1-thousand…
